UK's Met Office Purchasing World's Most Powerful Climate Supercomputer

Topic: AI

Title: UK's Met Office Purchasing World's Most Powerful Climate Supercomputer

Who/What: The Met Office, one of the UK's weather services, is planning for a 1.6 billion dollar (1.2 billion pounds) purchase of a state-of-the-art supercomputer to better predict severe weather conditions for the UK.
When/Why/how: The supercomputer will achieve this by harboring a digital twin of the atmosphere, which will enable it to be 6X more efficient than the Met's current Cray XC40.
More …: It is meant to also help monitor the effects of climate change and guide govt. policy on the same.

Methodology: Online research and use of a tumbled pyramid in the article.

Sources:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/12-billion-for-the-worlds-most-powerful-weather-and-climate-supercomputer
https://www.engadget.com/2020/02/17/uk-weather-supercomputer-most-powerful-yet/?guccounter=1

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Wordcount: 200-300

Qualification statement: It is an interesting development considering the broadcaster’s position and experience in the industry

Time: Appx 24 hours

Budget: 350TECH